This is the story of the building of a Jay Benford designed, 31.8ft, junk schooner-rigged cruising sailboat. The videos are a week-by-week record of the buil...

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i think straight into it this week as

you know you probably know

this is kind of the story of the build

of this this sailing cruising sailboat

32-foot boat

and this week been very active in this

workshop shed very active he says

i've done a bit on the boat of course as

well started off with

you might remember i was forming up this

this

um fiberglass

panel for the motor panel also the stop

port goes in here

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so

um

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okay

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that's

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uh yeah oh yes

good

yes

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oh

that's lovely

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so

so that will be recessed into the

cockpit it will have a uh

have a clear perspex cover that that

hinges

over top of it so that will all be

protected out of the way and that's

come out very well it's in undercoat at

the moment so i

still need to get some some gloss on it

but uh looking good

what are you making christmas

and then i wanted to get on with the

electrical installations in the boat so

for a while now i've had some lights

that i want to put in the saloon area

in the cabin inside and the nature of

those is i need they need the wire to

come in from behind them so i made up

these little

cherry wood blocks with um

paths for the wire to run through the

the light will fit on there

like that with the wire coming in from

behind it so i can route the wires

tightly

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and in a way that's the thing i've been

doing quite a lot of wiring in the boat

this week and it's there's wiring itself

isn't tricky but the

thing that takes all the thought is

trying to work out how to most

effectively run the wires so you can

so you can not see them or see see them

as little as possible

and also i've tried to keep all the

wiring up high so it's nothing in the

bilge

yeah in here it's all about the office

you've got

the switch panel here and uh

it's all about trying to route the wires

that are needed

as tightly as possible so you can see

quite a bit of wiring going on in there

and if you come in

in here kerry you'll see i've got this

channel which will be covered up

i've got this channel that's a major

sort of

through fair major archery for

electrical wiring

dips down there comes

through into our

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electric bay as such it's very dark in

there but it's coming through into there

so rooting wires um

this route i've been thinking about

getting or nav light connection which

will also be for the compass obviously

compass light comes on with it with the

lavaliers

and feed through to the plotter

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so i've been doing quite a lot of

thinking about that quite a lot of

routing of wires

uh most of the half wires are now in

position i think

and i've got one more set of wires to go

forwards forwards them across to the

port side

nav lights uh feed for the fan on the

stove

lights in the galley um that's my near

running into the engine room i've run i

say nav lights

plot the feed bilge pump feed

so i think i'm getting there and even on

a

boat as simple as this and then really

is relatively low-tech at least

there's still you know more wiring than

you expect

there's a fair bit of wire to run um

and we're getting there

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could be coming around up there we

couldn't we

there

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yes

also spend a day up at hazel's boat

cleaning up in there she's she's dug all

the old foam out of her bills where we

took the diesel tank out

still fairly horrible and he's clean and

she also she wants to fit a composting

toilet as i said so we

took the old toilet out did a few other

things

um run an electric cable so she's got

power

um we also pumped out the bilge

which is fairly horrible the way the

boat's set up the um

you've got a possibility to shower in

the heads and that drains into the

boat's bilge and then you know it can be

pumped out obviously with the bilge pump

but

um the net effect of that is that the

the builder

gets pretty stinky over the time that

it's been used the boat's nearly 40

years old so the bilgewater's

horrendous so we pump that out into

containers to dispose of

and took the toilet out as i say and

that was also

a less than pleasant job well it's

looking better

goal is to get it all cleaned out and

painted it's full of some

fairly unpleasant things and speaking of

unpleasant let's go in here

just taking the the toilet out

it's not very nice in there either get

rid of them hoses

give it a good old wash try and make it

smell a bit nicer

progress up coming on

so what's going on um well lots of

things actually

um right now i'm getting ready to clean

out the head

so you just took off the toilet

and it stinks yeah it needs to get

cleaned yeah the other thing we're

cleaning is the bilge isn't it yeah

lots of cleaning yes i'm about to also

pump out the main build don't we yeah

sort of got ourselves access to that and

we'll be pumping soon

oh what fun that's a filthy horrible

thing is it

stinks

what's going on hazel oh my god

oh we took the toilet out yeah

and now we're taking the pipes out under

everywhere it stinks a lot i'm just like

it's a good job you learn a smell on

this camera

oh it's horrible it is really bad

i just cleaned that suit

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it doesn't look too bad actually doesn't

it on camera i don't know if you could

smell it though

yeah a red bull yeah

oh actually i just held it to my face my

hand

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lovely and that's it for this week

thanks for watching

all that you know um we'll be getting on

with more wiring this week

wiring is it's not the most photogenic

thing but i've been running some more

wires

starting to think about the enemy ae

2000

network for the plotter and various

other bits uh

fairly simple one obviously but that's

got to be run as well

got the battery charger inverter to go

into

the bit of probably probably a week of

electrics this weekend especially

i'm going gonna see what that brings in

the way of videos to show you

but that's it for now see you next time

bye

although perhaps that isn't it for this

week because uh hazel and i have

released a single it's the first music

first new music i've put out for a long

time

it's called ocean view and it's

available

and all good digital sources i shall

leave you with a snippet

enjoy

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hey

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